Explore our growing collection of video recordings from the Trellis Seminar Series, World Therapeutic Horticulture Day events and learning sessions. This page brings together expert talks and inspiring stories from across the therapeutic horticulture sector.
Whether you’re catching up on a session you missed or revisiting a favourite presentation, these recordings offer ideas, insight and support your practice and deepen your knowledge. Enjoy learning at your own pace and dip into the topics that matter most to you.
A tale of how therapeutic horticulture is beginning to flourish in Italy
Ania shares her experiences of working with those young gardeners at the Villa and tell us about the new Masters...
A Year in the Therapy Garden Badenoch & Strathspey
Hear about our varied work providing social and therapeutic horticultural activities at our Growing Spaces within a local allotment; Medical...
Assistive Technology Structures in the Horticultural Therapy Garden and its Impacts
Dr Beela tells us about her work developing horticulture therapy programmes with children with autism and other physical and mental...
Australia: More Grows in the Garden than the Gardener Sows
Reflections on the growth of a patient driven Horticultural Therapy program from the ground up. Getting the balance right in...
Austria: Therapeutic Horticulture and Nature Coaching with Traumatized Adults
Nadja will share how she uses gardening to work with adults with mental health and addiction problems in Salzburg and...
Building Community
Alan tells us about Murrayburn & Hailesland Neighbourhood Garden, Edinburgh - how it came into being and what takes place...
Chris Campbell, Girvan Community Garden, Important Social Spaces
Girvan Community Garden (www.girvancommunitygarden.com) is situated within a former walled garden found at the bottom of a narrow winding lane...
Daniela Silva Rodriguez Bonazzi - Healing Garden at an orphanage in Lima
A presentation about a Healing Garden at an orphanage in Lima, Peru - the horticultural therapy program began by serving...
Diane Relf - A Mountain of Research Showing Gardening is Good for Us
Research on the role of horticulture in human wellbeing is mounting up, year after year. Practitioners can use this evidence-base...
Effect of Horticultural Therapy: Synopsis of Evidence, Hong Kong & Vietnam - Claudia K. Y. Lai
Horticultural therapy (HT) has the merits of being a non-pharmacological intervention and easily accessible in the community, even in densely...
Florida, USA: What’s on the Radar for Horticultural Therapy & Horticulture for Health
Exciting new programming and research are emerging impacting these two inter-related areas. Self-regulation, polyvagal theory, and increasing connections between HT-mental...
Garden Therapy at Bogdan Khmelnitsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University.
Natalya will tell us about the work she’s been doing in the State University in Melitopol to develop therapeutic gardening...
Germany & Kenya: Social Landscaping - a win for everyone
This presentation will cover experience in Colombia and Kenya. Georg will outline and discuss their experiences with the Social Landscaping...
Germany A basic therapeutic necessity promoting mental health as a goal of garden therapy
Andreas Niepel works at the VAMED Clinic in Hattingen, with patients with neurological disorders. ‘A basic therapeutic necessity: promoting mental...
Germany: Garden Therapy for Offenders with Mental Health Conditions
Rudiger discusses and reflects on over 13 years of working in Garden Therapy with offenders with mental health conditions.
Growing Recovery: The story of enthusiastic volunteers, a large polytunnel and courgette cake!
Alcohol and Drugs Action (ADA) Recovery Garden Project is a gardening based therapeutic group led by volunteers for people in...
Growing Resilience: TH Program Outcomes Among University Students, Florida - Leah Diehl
College students face increasing stress and anxiety, contributing to both personal and academic challenges. This study examined the impact of...
Growing vegetables and flowers with people affected by addiction in Sao Paulo State, Brazil.
Mirela reflects on how she developed the gardening project in a therapeutic community in a neighbouring town, what the participants...
Herbal Bath Bags & Wildflower Meadows
Embrace Spring with Emma & Joan's garden inspired crafts! Make herbal bath bags for a relaxing, fragrant soak in the...
Horticultural Healing at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus
The inspiring story of how a garden developed at a University Health Centre has become a central part of life...
Horticulture and Therapy in the United States - Derrick Stowell
Trellis Scotland Seminar series, this session will focus on results from a study of Horticultural Therapy practitioners on the current...
How is Horticultural Therapy Working in Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Association of Therapeutic Horticulture, established in 2008, aims to facilitate growth of HT in terms of professionalism...
HT Across the Continents Approaches to improving the human condition a study from Northern Iraq
The intercontinental team will present, in three perspectives, their collaborative work to help support a therapeutic gardening programme in Chamchamal...
Iceland: Helping people enjoy mindfulness in nature, and through gardening activities
We’ll learn about Harpa’s work supporting people towards rehabilitation using gardens, greenhouse space and local nature areas that help promote...
In Flanders Fields tales of gardening in Flanders, in prisons and other settings
Find out more about therapeutic gardening practice in Belgium. Including a prison in Leuwen and PXL university who are partners...
Isabelle Boucq and Tamara Singh - Therapeutic Gardening - where does France stand?
Therapeutic gardening has been making small headways in France for several years. In 2018, a group of diverse practitioners founded...
Joan Wilson - Projects in a poke
Whilst we navigate the current Covid restrictions and roadmap out of lockdown, engaging with and supporting clients through gardening activity...
John Marshall - Potatoes: a journey through time and around the globe
Potatoes: a journey through time and around the globe Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Xanadu, Peru
Maxell Ng - Therapeutic Horticulture Movement In Singapore
Understand the journey of introducing therapeutic horticulture in urbanised city like Singapore, the research on therapeutic horticulture and growing the...
Mindfulness in Nature
Mindfulness can enhance wellbeing and lift mood. In this interactive seminar, learn how to use 'Making a Mandala' as a...
Natalie McCall - The Sanctuary Garden
A reflection on the first 6 months of developing a new therapy garden with and for vulnerable women, informed by...
Research on horticulture therapy – experience from the living lab Alnarp Rehabilitation garden
Anna María Pálsdóttir is an Associate professor at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in the People and Society...
Ruth Nay - Art in the Garden Drawing and Printing
A range of drawing methods to use when working with people and plants including rubbings monoprints. Using gathered material to...
Sallie Sillars - Horatio's Garden, Improving the lives of everyone affected by spinal injury
The Scottish National Spinal Injuries Unit, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow cares for patients with spinal injury. Sallie explains...
Social & Therapeutic Horticulture Among Aged Care Residents in Lagos Nigeria
The Bloom Social therapeutic Horticulture project is a nature-based, evidence based design project. The project is aimed at utilising green...
Social and Therapeutic Horticulture in Portugal - Challenges for the Future
This seminar will cover topics such as: 1 - What happens in STH in Portugal 2 - The Edible Gardens...
Social and Therapeutic Horticulture in Spain Leila Alcalde
In recent years, the interest in nature-based therapies in Spain has slowly increased. The Spanish Association in Social and Therapeutic...
Taiwan: Searching for our Roots
Ching will share how she uses nature, plants and growing activities combined with local traditions and agricultural know-how to help...
The First Interdisciplinary Educational and Scientific Program "Garden Therapy" in Ukraine
!WARNING! About the film - there is a short episode of flashing and banding on the screen but the sound...
Therapeutic Horticulture and the Healing Benefits of Nature from Down Under
Therapeutic Horticulture is building momentum in Australia. Join Tara Graham-Cochrane, Therapeutic Horticulture Australia (THA) President, Amy Baker, researcher and lecturer...
Therapeutic Horticulture Australia - Tanya Bearup
Online Seminar Join us online for this presentation from Tanya Bearup, Vice President, Therapeutic Horticulture Australia talking about therapeutic horticulture...
Therapeutic Horticulture for Mental Health in Scottish Care Homes - Autumn Roesch-Marsh & Zoey Wang
This seminar will explore the findings of a small study in Scotland that aimed to explore the mechanisms through which...
UK, Life at No 27 How we do it and why
Life at No.27 C.I.C established as a therapy organisation in 2019. Since then we've learnt and grown a lot; now...
UK: Defence Gardens Scheme Concept to Capability
The Defence Gardens Scheme (DGS) is a UK wide network of gardens that deliver and evaluate nature assisted therapy for...
USA: Post Traumatic Growth - Celebrating the Seasons of Life Shoulder to Shoulder
After the chaos of a forest fire, it’s hard to erase the energetic imprint that the fury and devastation of...
